The Picerne Group

Founded in 1988 by Ken Picerne, The Picerne Group is an investment company that focuses on distressed debt, apartment acquisition, land acquisition, entitlement and apartment development. The Picerne Group creates above market returns by strategically capitalizing on its most significant competitive advantage: the ability to finance the acquisition of unentitled land. The Picerne Group acquires premium sites for multifamily development in areas that are supply constrained and have growing employment. The Picerne Group’s development business focuses on Class A properties in its core markets of Southern California, Denver and Las Vegas. The Picerne Group is positioned to capitalize on rare development opportunities because of its liquidity and banking relationships. Additionally, its entrepreneurial yet professional approach to investing allows the company to take measured entitlement risk that institutional investors and less well capitalized sponsors cannot.